So successful was their disguise that they were fired on by a party of surveyors near the outskirts of Harrodsburg.
The records do not state what were the sensations of certain speculators in a land office in Harrodsburg when a blue-eyed savage in a war bonnet sprang through the doorway and, with uplifted weapon, declared the office closed; but we get a hint of the power of Clark's personality and of his genius for dominating men from the terse report that he "enrolled" the speculators.

He was informed that another party of men, more nervous than these, was now on its way out of Kentucky.

In haste he dispatched a dozen frontiersmen to cut the party off at Crab Orchard and take away the gun of every man who refused to turn back and do his bit for Kentucky.

To Clark a man was a gun, and he meant that every gun should do its duty.
The leaders and pioneers of the Dark and Bloody Ground were now warriors, all under Clark's command, while for two years longer the Red Terror ranged Kentucky, falling with savage force now here, now there.
In the first battle of 1780, at the Blue Licks, Daniel's brother, Edward Boone, was killed and scalped.

Later on in the war his second son, Israel, suffered a like fate.